This is a one-year long project that seeks to empower 30 youth with tailoring and entrepreneurship skills to enable them become self-reliant in life. Upendo has been providing tailoring training skills to its sponsored students, which have enabled them to make their own school uniforms and for other schools. Upendo seeks to introduce these skills to other youth so that they too can gain skills and subsequently attain self-reliance and enable them to support themselves and their families.
Youth in Kenya are at risk of drug and substance abuse, poverty, exploitation, teenage pregnancies and early marriages, more so at the Coastal region of Kenya. Kilifi is one of poorest counties in Kenya with high levels of illiteracy and unemployment rates. Tailoring skills are practical and firsthand skills that help a person master a trade or a job. Equipping youth with tailoring skills will enhance their employability and self-reliance.
With the high levels of unemployment in Kenya, skills gaps, limited formal jobs and a rapid youth population growth, the focus should be on skills development in order to promote self-employment. Without this, youth will continue to be poor. This project will provide vocational training in tailoring incorporated with entrepreneurship training. All these are popular and highly marketable skills in Kenya.
The youth will learn marketable skills that will help them get employment upon completion or start their own their own enterprises to support themselves and their families. This will in turn reduce dependency and involvement in social vices and subsequently lift them out of poverty. These market-relevant trainings will help the beneficiaries become wage earners or business owners, thereby improving the lives of their families and the well-being of their communities they live in.
This project has provided additional documentation in a XLSX file (projdoc.xlsx).
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